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A  MEMORIAL 


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BISHOP  ATKINSON 


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The  late  Rt.  Rev  Thos.  Atkinson;  third  Bishop  of 
the  Diocese  of  North  Carolina. 


A  MEMORIAL  TO  BISHOP 
ATKINSON. 


The  Church  of  the  Holy  Comfort- 
er Preparing  to  Erect  a  Beauti- 
ful Stone  Church  in  Memory 
of  North  Carolina's  Greatest 
Bishop. 

The  Church  of  the  Holy  Com- 
forter is  one  of  the  most  progres- 
sive as  well  as  the  largest  of  the 
Charlotte  missions.  It  is  situated 
in  Dilworth,  the  southern  suburb 
of  Charlotte,  amid  surroundings 
which  encourage  growth  and  pro- 
gress. Three  years  ago  this  mis- 
sion was  organized  by  a  mere 
handful  of  loyal  Church  people, 
who  had  made  their  residence  in 
this  new  section  of  Charlotte  and 
felt  the  need  of  the  Church's  min- 
istrations not  only  for  their  own 
children  but  also  for  the  commun- 
ity. Rev.  Mr.  Tolson,  now  Arch- 
deacon of  Raleigh,  was  put  in 
charge  of  this  and  the  other  Char- 
lotte missions  and  served  efficient- 


ly  until  January,  1904.  Then,  for 
seven  months,  followed  a  critical 
period  in  the  life  of  the  mission, 
for  no  ordained  minister  was  in 
charge  ;  but  the  continued  lay  ser- 
vice by  Mr.  C.  E.  Frick,  an  occa- 
sional sermon  by  Archdeacon  K. 
A.  Osborne  and  the  determination 
of  the  warden  and  members  pre- 
served the  continuity  and  life  of 
the  congregation  and  Sunday 
School  until  a  minister  could  be 
secured.  Tn  September,  1904.  Rev. 
Francis  M.  Osborne,  then  Deacon, 
was  given  the  care  of  this  place 
and  St.  Martin's  Chapel.  When 
he  was  ordered  Priest  the  follow- 
ing March  he  still  remained,  and 
is  now  in  charge  of  the  same  work. 

In  the  fall  of  1004  a  notable 
meeting  of  the  congregation  was 
held  and  plans  for  work  were  dis- 
cussed and  laid  out.  The  great 
need  was  a  suitable  church  build- 
ing, for  the  congregation  were 
then  and  still  are  using  a  hall  over 
a  store,  an  "upper  room" — apos- 
tolic enough  to  suit  our  historic 
body,  but  too  primitive,  perhaps. 

A  committee  of  good  business 
men  was  appointed  and  collections 
were  at  once  solicited  for  a  lot. 


Fifteen  months  from  that  date  a 
$3,000  lot,  measuring  150  x  150 
feet,  located  on  the  principle  street 
of  Dilworth,  was  bought  and  paid 
for.  Since  that  day  the  Building- 
Fund  has  been  begun  and  at  the 
date  of  this  publication  has  reach- 
ed the  sum  of  $2,100,  a  total  of 
$5,100  raised  in  twenty  months— 
not  a  bad  result  for  a  congrega- 
tion of  a  little  over  half  a  hundred 
communicants.  Of  course,  the 
members  of  St.  Peter's,  Charlotte, 
and  other  friends  have  generously 
aided  in  this  result. 

In  many  respects  the  life  of  the 
congregation  has  kept  pace  with 
its  financial  progress  and  the  con- 
gregation has  a  well-organized 
Sunday  School,  a  Woman's  Parish 
Guild,  an  active  Woman's  Auxili- 
ary, a  Men's  Missionary  League 
and  other  helpful  activities.  It  is 
their  determined  policy  to  push 
forward  and  soon  take  a  place 
among  the  larger  and  stronger 
churches  of  the  Diocese. 

On  last  Whitsunday  (which  is 
observed  by  this  mission  as  a  par- 
ish day  each  year)  a  congregation- 
al meeting  was  held;  just  after  the 
close  of  the    Communion  service, 


to  act  on  the  suggestion  of  the  rec- 
tor, who  proposed  erecting  this 
anticipated  church  as  a  memorial 
to  the  late  Right  Rev.  Thomas  At- 
kinson. Rev.  Mr.  Osborne  had 
made  this  suggestion  in  his  ad- 
dress that  day  and  it  met  a  prompt 
and  enthusiastic  endorsement  from 
the  laymen.  A.  motion  was  put 
and  carried  unanimously. 

The  Building  Committee  re- 
ported that  it  had  accepted  the 
plans  proposed  by  Mr.  Charles  C. 
Haight,  of  New  York,  for  the 
stone  building  shown  in  the  ac- 
companying cut.  This  building  is 
so  planned  that  it  may  be  built  in 
sections.  The  first  section.  consi3t- 
ing  of  a  chancel  and  nave,  seating 
150  persons,  and  an  ample  base- 
ment for  Sunday  school  and  par- 
ish purposes,  will  cost  ten  or  twelve 
thousand  dollars.  This  will  be  be- 
gun as  soon  as  half  of  this  amount 
is  raised.  To  complete  the  church 
will  double  the  cost  of  the  first  por- 
tion built. 

The  words  of  the  rector  in  which 
the  idea  of  erecting  a  memorial 
church  was  brought  before  the 
congregation  are  here  given.  They 
are  a  part  of  his  Whitsunday  ad- 


dress  and  as  containing  a  short 
sketch  of  the  life  of  Bishop  At- 
kinson may  be  of  interest  to  oth- 
ers besides  those  especially  ad- 
dressed. 

After  referring  to  matters  of  lo- 
cal need  and  progress  in  the  mis- 
sion Mr.  Osborne  said*  "We  have 
been  speaking  of  some  encourag- 
ing things  in  the  life  of  our  con- 
gregation. 

"Whence  comes  the  progress 
upon  which  we  congratulate  our- 
selves? From  pursuing,  under  the 
grace  of  God.  a  settled  and  de- 
termined policy  to  be  something 
and  to  do  something,  to  become  a 
useful  factor  for  the  Church  not 
only  among  our  own  children,  in 
our  own  community,  but  also  in 
the  Diocese  and  in  the  general 
Church. 

"To-day  T  want  you  to  take  an- 
other step  that  will  help  us  to  carry 
out  this  policy.  I  want  you  to  take 
this  step,  but  I  do  not  want  you  to 
do  so  just  because  1  desire  it.  T 
want  it  to  be  an  act  of  yours — one 
you  are  satisfied  with  and  in  favor 
of.  For  this  reason  T  shall  present 
you  my  reasons  for  proposing  such 
a  step  to  your  consideration.  I 


would  convince  you  that  what  I 
am  about  to  propose  is  in  itself  a 
worthy  thing  to  do,  approved  not 
by  myself  alone,  but  also  by  trje 
Archdeacon  of  this  Convocation 
and  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese.  T 
would  convince  you  that  it  would 
be  an  honorable  recognition  of  our 
duty  to  this  Diocese  and  an  oppor- 
tunity of  prestige  of  which  no 
church  in  the  Union  has  availed  it- 
self— (to  my  great  wonder!)— in 
paying  a  debt  which  the  whole 
Church  in  America  owes  to  the 
memory  of  a  great  Christian  lead- 
er and  Bishop.  In  the  meeting 
of  the  congregation  which  is  to 
follow  I  am  going  to  propose,  have 
you  discuss,  and  urge  you  to  pass 
a  resolution  that  we  erect  the  beau- 
tiful church  which  we  are  planning 
to  the  memory  of  the  third  of  the 
five  Bishops  that  have  guided  the 
Church  in  North  Carolina,  the  no- 
ble, the  great,  the  beloved,  the  late 
Bishop  Thomas  Atkinson,  D.D.. 
LLD. 

"I  can  conceive  of  but  one  rea- 
son why  the  very  suggestion  of 
this  step  should  not  receive  unani- 
mous applause  from  this  congre- 
gation and  that  is  the  fact  that 


there  are  among  us  some  who 
have  lived  in  North  Carolina  but 
i  short  while ;  some  here  who  were 
rot  reared  in  the  Episcopal 
Church,  and  some  whose  youth  has 
given  them  no  opportunity  to  know 
more  than  the  name  of  this  great 
man.  If  these  circumstances  have 
stood  in  the  way  of  your  knowing 
Bishop  Atkinson  in  person  or  in 
history,  will  you  bear  with  me  if 
I  lengthen  this  address  to  sketch 
his  life  and  show  you  why  your 
rectOT,  the  Archdeacon,  and  your 
present  Bishop,  as  well  as  some  of 
this  congregation,  consider  his 
name  worthy  of  memory — aye, 
more — that  this  is  an  opportunity 
of  honoring  ourselves. 

"Tht  lone  and  useful  life  of 
Thomas  Atkinson  covered  three- 
fourths  of  the  century  that  has  re- 
cently closed,  having  Seen  bora 
August  6,  1807,  and  having  lived 
till  January  4,  1881 — 74  years. 

"As  2  young  man  he  graduated 
with  distinction  at  Hampden- Sid- 
ney College,  in  Virginia,  and  en- 
tered, vrith  marked  promise  of  suc- 
cess, upon  the  practice  of  law  be- 
fore he  turned  his  attention  to 
preparaTion  for  the  ministry.  At 


the  age  of  29  he  was  ordered  Dea- 
con and  the  next  year  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  priesthood  after  a 
year's  work  in  St.  Paul's  Parish 
Norfolk.  Later  he  moved  to 
Lynchburg,  Vav  and  still  later  on 
he  was  called  to  St.  Paul's.  Balti- 
more, to  fill  the  place  made  vacait 
by  the  election  of  Dr.  Henshaw  to 
the  Episcopate  of  Rhode  Island. 
Here  in  Baltimore  he  was  instru- 
mental in  the  building  of  beautiful 
Grace  Church,  a  building  still 
standing  an  honor  to  his.wori  and 
ability,  wherein  nearly  a  thoisand 
communicants  have  their  cfiurch 
home.  Though  he  was  rector  of 
Grace  Church  but  little  bver  a 
year,  so  highly  was  he  esteemed 
that  when  you  go  there  to-day  you 
find  his  name  commemorated  and 
reverenced. 

"His  election  to  the  Episcopate 
in  the  Diocese  of  North  Carolina 
(then  the  whole  State)  called  him 
away  from  Baltimore.  Our  Bishop- 
elect  was  consecrated  in  St,  John's 
Chapel,  New  York,  along  vrith  Dr. 
Davis,.  Bishop-elect  of  South  Caro- 
lina, at  a  session  of  the  General 
Convention  in  the  fall  of  1853,  a 
Canadian  and  a    British  Indian 


Bishop  joining  with  the  American 
Bishops  in  the  consecration.  The 
fact  that  ere  long  this  worthy  man 
received  honorary  degrees  from 
the  University  of  North  Carolina, 
Trinity  College,  Connecticut,  and 
Cambridge  University,  England, 
showed  that  his  recognition  was 
not  only  diocesan,  but  national  and 
world-wide. 

"Now  to  understand  the  courage 
and  strength  of  this  man  we  must 
remember  two  things :  The  difficul- 
ties under  which  his  Episcopate 
was  begun  and  the  devastation  of 
the  war  which  broke  in  upon  him 
before  the  first  obstacles  were  fair- 
ly overcome.  The  former  difficul- 
ties were  those  that  arose  from  the 
desertion  of  Bishop  Ives  to  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church.  Bishop 
Ives,  the  second  Bishop  of  North 
Carolina,  was  in  office  during  that 
period  of  church  history  known  as 
the  Catholic  Renaissance,  which, 
some  said,  would  carry  the  Church 
of  England  and  the  American 
Episcopal  Church  bodily  into  the 
Roman  Church.  In  England  it 
did  move  for  a  time  with  power 
and  such  great  men  as  Newman, 
Manning,  Paber,  etc.,  were  lost  to 


the  English  Church.  In  the  Unit- 
ed States  Bishop  Ives  and  some 
others  of  lesser  office  were  caught 
by  the  infection  and  became  Ro- 
manists, Now,  while  in  North 
Carolina  no  other  minister  follow- 
ed in  this  course  and  no  laymen 
except  two  women — one  the  Bis- 
hop's wife  and  the  other  a  woman 
who  afterwards  returned — still 
such  a  startling  event  as  this  left 
the  people's  minds  unsettled,  cre- 
ated an  impression  among  outsid- 
ers that  the  tendency  of  the  Epis- 
copal Church  was  toward  Roman- 
ism ;  created  friction  among  those 
who  admired  and  those  who  con- 
demned the  decision  of  Bishop 
Ives  and  generally  demoralized  a 
diocese  already  weak  in  numbers 
(having  little  over  two  thousand 
communicants)  and  scattered  over 
a  State  500  miles  long. 

"But  God  had  raised  up  a  man 
for  this  troublesome  and  turbulent 
time.  'The  (very)  qualities  need- 
ed for  the  time  and  circumstances 
were  found  in  the  new  Bishop/ 
says  the  late  Bishop  of  East  Caro- 
lina. 'He  was  both  firm  and  gen- 
tle, vigorous  and  cautious.  His  in- 
tellect was  all  the  sort  to  command 


respect  of  all.  His  power  as 
speaker  and  pracher  was  excep- 
tional, both  dignified  and  genial, 
devout  and  agreeable.  His  views, 
while  broad,  were  defined  and 
positive.  He  was  'broad-minded 
and  of  sound  judgment  that  came 
of  wide  knowledge  and  experience. 
In  person  he  was  noble  and  com- 
manding. In  'his  face  sweetness 
and  noble  manliness  were  in  an  un- 
usual degree  combined  and  in  his 
mental  contact  with  others  there 
was  magnetism  which  made  him 
respected  and  beloved.  He  was, 
indeed,  the  very  man,  called  of 
God,  to  take  up  the  broken  lines  of 
church  wrork  and  reunite  them,  to 
restore  confidence  and  peace,  to  re- 
move doubts  and  suspicions  that 
were  festering  in  the  body  ecclesi- 
astic, to  bring  the  Diocese  back  to 
safe  and  quiet  moorings.' 

But  hardly  had  the  smoke  of 
this  battle  of  doctrine,  faith  and 
feeling  cleared  away,  the  wounds 
been  healed  and  peace  restored  be- 
fore the  roar  of  civil  strife  filled 
the  country  with  its  din.  The  great 
war  of  North  and  South  had  be- 
gun and  as  the  chasm  marked  by 
the  Mason  and  Dixon  line  yawned 


wider  and  wider  not  only  was  the 
nation,  but  also  the  Church  divided 
into  two  parts — the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confeder- 
ate States  and  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  the  United  States. 

"But  let  us  not  misunderstand 
the  principle  upon  which  the  Epis- 
copal Church  divided  North  and 
South.  It  did  not  follow  the  course 
already  marked  out  by  the  division 
of  the  Methodist  Church  in  1845 
(  !)  over  the  question  of  the  rights 
of  a  Methodist  minister  to  hold 
slaves.  It  did  not  divide  like  the 
Presbyterians  by  taking  sides  on 
the  question  of  the  fugitive  slave 
law  in  1857.  ^  was  not  divided 
upon  principles  of  mbrals  and  pol- 
itics before  the  war  began.  The 
Episcopal  Church  did  not  attempt 
to  settle  the  questions  upon  which 
the  country  was  in  dispute. 

Laymen,  priests  and  bishops, 
North  and  South,  differed  widely 
in  their  views  of  slavery,  but  the 
unity  of  the  Church  was  sacred  to 
them.  But  when  political  separa- 
tion, secession,  became  a  fact  the 
Southern  Churchmen  maintained 
that  it  carried  with  it  ecclesiastical 
separation — that    they     had  no 


choice- — that  it  was  as  natural  as 
the  existence  of  a  national  Church 
of  England  and  a  national  Church 
in  the  United  States.  Bishops  Polk 
and  Elliott  wrote  a  circular  letter 
at  this  time  in  which  they  sum  up 
the  position  of  the  Southern 
Church  as  follows :  "This  necessi- 
ty does  not  rise  of  any  division 
which  has  occurred  within  the 
Church  itself,  nor  from  any  dissat- 
isfaction with  either  the  doctrine 
or  discipline  of  the  Church.  We 
rejoice  to  record  that  we  are  to- 
day, as  Churchmen,  as  truly  breth- 
ren as  we  have  ever  been,  and  that 
no  deed  has  been  done,  or  word  ut- 
tered, which  leaves  a  single  wound 
rankling  in  any  breast/  So,  when 
the  General  Convention  met  a  year 
after  the  war  began  the  South  was 
not  represented.  The  South  held 
its  own  convention,  adopted  the 
name  "The  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  Confederate  States 
of  America,"  drew  up  a  constitu- 
tion, published  the  Prayer  Book 
with  Confederate  States  substi- 
tuted for  United  States,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  do  the  work  of  a  national 
church. 

"Now,  one  might  infer  that  a 


separation  so  quietly  and  peacea- 
bly effected  might  as  quietly  have 
been  adjusted  at  the  close  of  the 
war.  Such  an  inference  were  true 
if  no  account  is  taken  of  human 
passions.  But  we  must  take  ac- 
count of  human  passions,  for  when 
the  close  of  the  war  declared  the 
nation  undivided  the  chasm  of  sep- 
aration was  filled — yes,  but  filled 
with  lives  and  fortunes  and  to 
reach  across  this  abyss  of  horror 
and  shake  friendly  hands  would 
take  more  manliness  and  self-con- 
trol than  the  great  majority  of  hu- 
man beings  are  capable  of.  Yet 
that  was  the  step  now  necessary 
for  a  united  church.  The  genera- 
tion of  that  day  has  now  almost 
passed  away  before  some  of  our 
denominational  brethren  have  been 
able  to  take  the  step.  Would  the 
men  of  the  South  have  courage 
to  master  their  passions?  Would 
the  men  of  the  North  veil  their 
triumph  ? 

''Was  it  in  human  power  for 
these  Southern  churchmen  to  for- 
get their  smarting  wounds?  Had 
not  Dr.  Wingfield,  of  Portsmouth, 
Va.,  been  sent  to  the  chain  gang 
for  praying  for  the  President  of 


the  Confederate  States,  and  Dr. 
Smith,  of  Alexandria,  arrested  for 
refusing  to  pray  for  the  President 
of  the  United  States?  And  were 
not  many  churches  throughout  the 
South  closed  by  Northern  arms 
because  they  used  this  Confederate 
Prayer  Book?  Had  not  the  blood 
of  a  brave  Bishop-General  been 
shed  upon  the  battlefield?  Were 
not  military  reconstruction  Gov- 
ernors in  occupation  in  Southern 
States?  Tlie  theory  of  union  was 
as  easy  as  that  of  separation,  hut 
the  passions  or  chagrin,  humilia- 
tion, anger  and  hate  made  the  ap- 
plication of  the  theory  a  very  diffi- 
cult thing. 

"On  the  other  hand,  Churchmen 
in  the  North  had  never  admitted 
the  right  of  the  Confederate  States 
to  organize  a  separate  convention. 
Bishop  Wilmer  had  been  made 
Bishop  of  Alabama  by  this  South- 
ern Church,  with  the  consent  of  all 
of  its  Bishops  but  without  consul- 
tation with  the  Bishop  of  the 
North.  This  was  regarded  as 
high-handed  anarchy.  Some  even 
suggested  a  severe  discipline  for 
the  traitorous  (  ?)  Southerners. 

"Wounds  on  one  hand  and  tri- 


timph  on  the  other  made  the  situa- 
tion a  most  intense  and  delicate 
one. 

"But  there  were  men  in  the 
North  and  men  in  the  South  who 
saw  that  the  path  of  duty  lay  on 
the  other  side  of  these  obstacles 
of  human  passion.  The  large- 
hearted  Bishop  Hopkins,  of  Ver- 
mont, sent  a  letter  to  all  the  South- 
ern Dioceses  assuring  them  of  a 
welcome  to  their  old  seats  in  the 
Convention.  But  human  passion 
was  strong  and  the  Southern  men 
hesitated.  It  was  easier  for  a 
triumphant  North  to  offer  hospi- 
tality than  for  a  defeated  South 
to  accept  it  and  so  those  eager  for 
union  awaited  the  roll  call  of  the 
convention  of  '65  in  Philadelphia 
with  trembling  dread.  The  roll 
began  with  Alabama  but  not  a 
Southern  representative  answered 
to  his  name,  till  the  secretary  had 
passed  half-wray  through  the  alpha- 
bet. Then  came  'North  Carolina/ 
Bishop  Atkinson  stood  upon  his 
feet  to  assure  the  Convention  that 
there  were  in  the  South  not  only 
heroes  of  war  but  also  heroes  of 
peace — men  who  had  the  courage 


to  conquer  self  for  the  sake  of 
duty  and  the  Church. 

"Another  Southern  Bishop, 
Bishop  Lay.  of  the  Southwest,  also 
answered  to  his  name,  as  well  as 
some  deputies  from  North  Caroli- 
na, Tennessee  and  Texas,  and  all 
promised  to  move  in  peace  and 
harmony.  But  this  harmony  was 
soon  threatened  from  an.  unexpect- 
ed source.  A  resolution  was  pro- 
posed that  a  thanksgiving  service 
be  held  "for  the  restoration  of 
peace  and  the  re-establishment  of 
the  National  Government  over  the 
whole  land/  These  wrere  the  words 
of  the  resolution,  Imagine  for  a 
moment  the  feelings  of  our  great 
Bishop !  How  could  he  give  thanks 
for  the  victory  of  the  army  of  the 
North?  It  was  an  intense  moment. 
All  the  pacific  interests  of  the  lov- 
ers of  the  unity  were  about  to  be 
dashed  to  pieces,  it  seemed.  The 
Bishop  of  North  Carolina  was 
upon  his  feet — to  rage?  to  storm? 
to  resent  the  sting  of  this  unwise 
and  tactless  resolution  with  anger 
and  scorn?  No!  But  with  power- 
ful self-control,  with  surpassing 
tenderness,  with  over-powering 
gentleness  to  offer  an  amendment 


— 'To  give  thanks  for  your  victor- 
ies when  we  prayed  for  another 
issue  is  a  mockery— impossible ! 
But  let  us  hole!  a  thanksgiving  ser- 
vice and  return  thanks  for  the  res- 
toration of  pence  to  the  country 
and  unity  to  the  Church,  and  we 
here  present  and  the  whole  South 
which  we  represent  will  join  as 
heartily  and  sincerely  as  any  !' 
The  amendment  was  carried— the 
crisis  passed  and  in  the  person  of 
Bishop  Atkinson  and  Bishop  Lay 
the  Church  was  once  more  united 
and  all  references  to  North  and 
South  forever  settled  as  far  as  the 
Episcopal  Church  in  this  country  is 
concerned.  A  generation  of  dis- 
cussion, diplomacy  and  adjustment 
was  averted  and  the  great  question 
settled  once  for  all  by  the  prompt- 
ness, far-sightedness  and  courage 
such  as  that  of  Bishop  Atkinson. 

''After  this  convention  Bishop 
Atkinson  returned  to  North  Caro- 
lina to  restore  his  diocese  now 
shattered  by  the  war.  In  spite  of 
the  discouragement  in  the  Diocese 
at  the  beginning  of  his  Episcopate 
and  the  terrible  effect  of  the  war, 
in  20  years  after  his  consecration 
the  number  of  clergy  had  increased 


25  per  cent,  and  the  communicants 
100  per  cent.  For  ten  years  longer, 
with  Bishop  Lyman  as  assistant, 
the  apostolic  man  was  permitted  to 
serve  his  flock  and  to  see  the  ori- 
ginal number  of  communicants 
multiplied  by  three  and  the  setting 
apart  of  the  Diocese  of  East  Caro- 
lina. Tn  January,  1881,  his  life 
ended,  quietly  at  home  among  his 
people,  in  the  44th  year  of  his  min- 
istry, the  28th  of  his  Episcopate 
and"  the  74th  vear  of  his  saintly 
life. 

''Do  you  ask  my  reasons  for  a 
proposed  memorial  to  this  man? 
His  life  i°.  reason  enough.  And 
will  other  returns  come  to  us? 

"Yes.  T.  The  sense  of  satisfac- 
tion in  having  done  a  worthy  thing. 

"II.  The  thanks,  gratitude  and 
sympathy  and  perhaps  assistance 
of  a 'thousand  or  more  of  those 
still  living  upon  whom  his  hands 
were  laid  for  confirmation  and  of 
those  ordained  to  the  sacred  min- 
istry at  his  hands. 

"III.  The  reactive  influence  of 
the  discharge  of  a  duty  to  this  .Dio- 
cese. The  memories  of  all  of  our 
departed  Bishops  are  perpetuated 
but  to  this  one,  the  greatest  of  al!r 


there  is  no  memorial  in  this  whole 
State  except  a  dining  hall  and  tab- 
let at  the  Thompson  Orphanage 
and  some  chancel  furniture  in  St. 
James's  Church,  Wilmington. 

"Do  we  desire  to  do  something 
and  to  be  something  worthy  of  our 
calling?  To  do  this  worthily  is  a 
big  undertaking.  In  the  attempt 
we  can  honor  ourselves.  Here  is 
an  opportunity!" 


This  book  must  not 
be  taken  from  the 
Library  building. 


Form  No.  471 


